What if Robby was friends with Jacks wife before Jack met her, and that's how he meets Jack.
Lizzie is his best friend. Her Grandmother was friends with Robby's. They went to temple together and attended the same book club.
Lizzie was the closest thing to a sister Robby has ever had.
The only person in his life left after his Bubbe passed.
So when he she comes home from deployment with a combat medic named Jack telling Robby, she's found the one. He's happy for her.
Jack is great. He's handsome, charming, funny, caring, and gets Liz in a way none of her past boyfriends ever did.
Robby is weary, of course. Lizzie has a habit of dating guys who don't much like how close their girlfriend is to another man. (Even after they find out Robby is queer — they never bother explaining Robby is bisexual because that always made it worse)
Jack never seems bothered by it — he invites Robby to dinner with them. Asks him to ball games. He goes out of his way to get to know his girlfriends best friend.
By the time Jack asks Robby to help propose to Lizzie, the two of them are near inseparable too.
When Jack asks, Robby is there to take pictures and pop the champagne (beer because hes still a resident and living in the city is expensive even with an inherited house).
Lizzie asks him to be her best man right before Jack asks.
He ends up officating the wedding instead.
When Jack is sent back out while Lizzie stays behind — they both worry. Lizzie moves in with Robby, not like she wasn't living there already. It helps having to two of them together to keep the other distracted.
When Lizzie gets the call, Robby is at work. He's covering for a fellow residents sick leave. He's been on shift for almost seventy-two hours. Mind a blurry mess trying to catch sleep in the on call room.
Dana wakes him up, her face carefully schooled.
All she has to say is "Jack's hurt." And Robby is out the door. He tells Adamson its a family emergency and is racing home.
He can't go with her to get him, they need him at the hospital, but he does everything else. He contacts Jack's CO, talks about PT, and recovery over the phone with the doctor.
He asks around about VA hospitals, talks to ortho about their prothesis program.
He spends his days off renovating the downstairs to meet Jack's needs.
By the time Lizzie is flying home with Jack minus half a leg, Robby has rearranged his whole life.
He picks them up from the airport. Jack in his wheelchair. His service bag in his lap, circles under his eyes, bandages covering his whole right side. Jack notices him first and the faintest hint of a smile tips his lips.
And Robby is bowled over.
His heart drops to his knees, his hands go numb, he feels like someone stuck his finger in a light socket.
Because even injured and tired, looking for all the worlds like he cheated death, Jack is the most beautiful person he's ever laid eyes on.
He's his only other friend, basically his brother in law, married to the most important person in Robby’s life.
And Robby is in love with him.
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